Women of Color Leading on Capitol Hill
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for Women of Color to learn about the current state of women in politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible people changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to The Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls. Ashanti here, the founder of the Brown World's Guide to Politics. |
| 0:57.2 | This episode is another live discussion featuring women of color leading on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:03.5 | Tracking done by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that people of color account for 38% of the U.S. population, but only 13.7% of U.S. |
| 1:13.7 | House top staff. They also reported that people of color accounted for only 7.1% of U.S. Senate |
| 1:20.8 | top staff. We partnered with the Black Women's Congressional Alliance to bring together |
| 1:25.7 | Sonali Desai, Christina Henderson, |
| 1:29.1 | Zeta Kenan Dole, Angela Ramirez, and Kenan Austin Reed to discuss their path to Capitol |
| 1:35.5 | Hill and how they are working to make policies that better reflect the daily lives of people |
| 1:40.7 | of color. I hope you enjoy the conversation. I have five amazing women with me tonight. |
| 1:49.9 | So I want to start off with just having you all introduce yourselves, give us your name, what you |
| 1:56.2 | do, and tell us a woman of color and politics that has inspired you. |
| 2:01.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 2:01.9 | I'm Keenan Austin Reed. |
| 2:03.3 | I'm chief of staff to Congressman Donald McKeachan and one of the co-founders of the Black |
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